Chapter 1 Sustainable Development Goal 2.1: Undernourishment and food insecurity
Key messages
- Africa is not on track to meet the food security and nutrition targets of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 – and the Malabo targets of ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition by 2025. After a long period of improvement between 2000 and 2010, hunger has worsened substantially and most of this deterioration occurred between 2019 and 2022.
- In 2022, nearly 282 million people in Africa were undernourished, an increase of 57 million people since the COVID 19 pandemic.
- An estimated 868 million people were moderately or severely food-insecure in Africa in 2022 and more than one-third of them – 342 million people – were severely food-insecure. More than two-thirds of the population in Central Africa, Eastern Africa and Western Africa faced moderate or severe food insecurity, meaning they did not have access to adequate food.